First a quick catch up on the afternoon and evening activities from day #1.

Linuxcon in Vancouver, British Columbia!

I discovered that Linuxcon will be in Vancouver this year. Linus will be coming to keynote with another 10 keynote sessions following that. To top all that off, it will be the 20th anniversary for Linux! For more information check out the following:

Portland City Startup, Meet the Startup

While talking with people I stumbled upon an interesting interview and write up by Rick Turosczy with Portland’s Mayor Sam Adams. In the interview he discuss Portland from the perspective of the city being a startup. Great write up and interview, check it out.

Evening Hacking & Beers

After the events of the day I headed to Bailey’t to meet up with some other coders where I got a short crash course on a couple of awesome technologies. One technology I had been meaning to download and install. It was cool to get a quick review of Node.js.

If you’re doing any sort of web development or software development in general, you need to go and try out Node.js and see what it is about. To see the power of node, just start by taking a look how you execute it. The following line starts the server (after installing it of course).

That’s it, and you’re up and running. For more information check out the Node.js Site.

After the quick study on node from @jerrysievert (thanks Jerry!), he jumped right into NPM and got me up to speed with Node Package Manager. Along with the node manager we also reviewed Ffffallback and other Javascript dev tools and frameworks.

Now, For Day #2

So now, after all that from yesterday let’s get to today. Today kicked off a little later than day #1, for various undisclosed reasons.

Run JavaScript Everywhere, With Jellyfish

The first session of today was for Jellyfish Javascript Execution Engine. By Adam Christian & his cohort from Yammer. This session also had a HUGE DOSE of WRITE CODE FOR YOUR APPS OR YOU’LL PAY THE PRICE OF BAD CODE added to it. Which for me, was a bit of choir preaching. I’m all about the tests and can’t imagine code bases without tests. (I suppose I could, but I’d have nightmares).

The Jellyfish Effort is a Node Project working toward getting your JavaScript to run everywhere. For even more detailed information about the project check out the Jellyfish Github Site.

Some of the other things to check out if you’re interested in Jellyfish and browser testing:

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Lean, Kanban, Agile Pairing, TDD (sometimes test after) software architect and programmer. Worked with distributed (called cloud sometimes) computing services since 2007 using phat data (8 billion rows of data on an AVERAGE day, sometimes called big data) and everything from business intelligence to the nitty gritty of array structures inside file based data stores to create caching tiers for custom software needs.
Currently pushing for distributed technologies & improving software architecture, better data centers, the best software development practices and keeping everything secure in the financial industry again.
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